"Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years" by Jared Diamond (own, re-read)"The Dream Kingdom" by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles (library, and damnit, she's set it up for a whole bunch of the Morlands to be on the Titanic in the next book but I don't think that's published till next year so I gotta wait to find out who dies, though it's probably all those on the ship)